I swallowed back the tears threatening to form and spoke softly, nothing but reverence in my tone. “I have met them, yes. Riding an air dragon takes a bit more force than the graceful movement of a water dragon I would imagine.”
Shen growled. “Uncultured beasts, the lot of them.”
Riella’s swirling eyes studied me while she chewed on her bottom lip with her tiny needled teeth. “When we get to the surface. I will ride one.” She released her lip with a pop and nodded once to herself before turning forward. “I have decided I also will ride a unicorn.”
I laughed and wrapped my arms around her to give her a gentle squeeze. “Deal. You show me how to ride a water dragon and I will show you how to ride both an air dragon and a unicorn.”
Shen snorted and then shot forward. Riella instantly leaned inward as did I, covering her petite form with my body. Muddy pink hair tickled my face and the faeling trembled with excitement.
I smiled into her hair.
A miracle.
She was a goddess blessed miracle.
My chest constricted involuntarily and I circled my arms more tightly around her. The tears I had been holding back spilled into the water rushing quickly past us, finally recognizing the emotionI had been swallowing down since the moment I met her…one I thought I’d never feel again.
Hope.
Riella was hope.
Chapter 25
"Gotanyotherbrilliantideas?”My beast mocked.
I rolled my eyes where I was hiding in the murky black waters that had been concealing me.
Another tentacle came hurtling down through the inky darkness and sent me skittering across the ocean floor like a damn leaf. “This is all according to plan.” I grunted when a large rock jabbed into my hip.
The cat all but yawned. “Is it indeed?”
“Are you taking a cat nap? Why don't you just choke on a fur ball instead while you're at it.”Dry words…serious words.
“What would you have me do? I’m bored and you're scurrying around on the seafloor like that jackalope I ate a week ago.”He said haughtily.“Which reminds me. I’m famished.”
“Who in the fucksays famished?”
“Cultured beings…unlike that disgusting Kraken you seem to be playing with.”He yawned again.“I told you not to trust that water fae bitch.”
Another tentacle sweep barely missed my head, sending me further along the ocean floor along with the muck. Only stopping when my back bumped into something slender and hard.
A grin spread across my face.“Did you just say bitch?”
The beast stilled, blissfully quiet for a moment.“Apologies, all this water is getting to me.”
I chuckled evilly.“Perhaps, I’ll make The Under my next vacation home.”
No response.
“Cowardly pussy!” Cronin yelled in frustration after another attempt to crush me using his blubbery arms. “Falcon, was right to turn on you.”
Falcon. I gripped the hard slender objects, baring my teeth in the darkness, and my heart thundered with rage.
Unlike my shifter brethren, natural bloodlust was never the cause of lost control for me…it was the blazing golden power inside that I feared.
“You’re welcome.” The beast yawned again.
Ignoring him, I breathed in the bloodlust. Embraced it. Seized it. I was fucking hungry for it. Hungry for blood. The price of my one hundred year old revenge.
